Archaeological Museum of Tarragona to reopen for Christmas after eight years closed for works

The Archaeological Museum of Tarragona will reopen around Christmas after eight years closed for renovation works.

Work is now underway on the transfer of the pieces, which have been restored, and completing the new museography of the space, which includes the designing and organization of exhibitions.

According to the Minister of Culture in an interview with the Catalan News Agency, it will be a "21st century" facility, which will allow us to know "much better" the heritage and the Roman past of Tarraco and the country as a whole.

"Catalonia deserves to have this museum and Tarragona deserves to have this museum," Sònia Hernández Almodóvar stated.

The new museum is expected to house a thousand pieces, a selection of the 54,000 that the MNAT collection has in its warehouses.

The Minister of Culture says this is a museum with a "very important" collection and with "first-class" finds. "One of the works that has been done, and that I want to emphasize, is the restoration of these great pieces, which we will be able to see in all their splendor," she highlights.

The pieces will be accompanied by resources to make them more understandable and contextualized for visitors. 

In this sense, Sònia Hernández Almodóvar wanted to vindicate the project 'The eyes of history', an immersive proposal on Catalan heritage promoted by the Department of Culture to bring history to life in the first person in cultural facilities.